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Contributing to this blog:
- "Dave" is Dave Barry, who is a humor columnist and presidential contender.
- "judi" is Judi Smith, who is Dave's Research Department, as well as being interested in men.
- "Walter" is Walter, a bone from the penis of a walrus.

August 01, 2009

THANKS, BUT NO THANKS

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What, exactly, is wrong with parents? I always hope that, maybe, this was not the birth name. Is it possible that the mother remarried and took the new husband's last name for her children?
In any case, these parents deserve a crappy nursing home.

As a proud Dick, I would like to express my disgust and outrage at this cheap joke at the expense of Mr. Dick Pole. Although I’m English and don’t understand a thing about ‘pitching’ (it means something else over here and I could never see the need to have a coach to teach something that comes so naturally do boys of a certain age), I’m certain that Dick Pole is good at his job and that his friends and family would stand firmly beside Dick to show the world a united front against such blatant Dickism.

How would you feel if we mocked your name? Here in North London, it’s the highest insult to call somebody a ‘Dav’, but would I call you Dav Barry? No, of course I wouldn’t! It would only cause undue hurt to an American. I wish people were equally sensitive to Dicks. People laugh at us Dicks all the time, such as Mr. Dick Spring, the former Irish politician who had to suffer years of sniggering at his name. I fondly remember Dr. Dick Shaft, a director of British Petroleum, or my good friend, Mr. Dick Drop, head of regional programming at BBC Cumbria.

Like all these Dicks, I too have been mocked because of my name. I didn’t expect if from your normally excellent blog. Rather, I would have expected somebody with such a high profile position to stand up against the rampant scoffing of Dicks.